Ballard v. State

Littlejohn, Justice:

William James Ballard is serving a five year sentence in a Richland County Prison Camp. He sought a new trial in the court below under our recently enacted Post-Conviction Procedure Act, § 17-601 et seq., of the South Carolina Code (1962). Relief was denied in that court. Ballard has appealed.

In the lower court it was the contention of Ballard that his guilty plea was involuntarily given, and that he was improperly sentenced because he was not sentenced under the Youthful Offender Act, § 55-395 of the Code.

In this appeal there is submitted only one question, taken from the…